Bai Tou Weng
| Bai Tou Weng in TCM:Explore the properties of Bai Tou Weng according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: pulsatilla, Chinese pulsatilla
Pharmaceutical Name: Radix Pulsatillae
Properties: bitter, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: LI
Flavors: bitter
Special Properties:
circulates blood, clears heat, eliminates toxins, expels parasites
Actions / Indications:
- Clears heat; relieves toxicity; cools blood (take
internally for malaria, primarily dysenteric
disorders due to damp-heat in the intestines: amoebic and bacterial
with blood and pus especially when there is more blood than pus)
- Kills parasites; stops itching (inhibits amoeba in
vitro and in vivo, apply topically for general genital itching, vaginal
discharge particularly for trichonomonas vaginalis protozoan)
Contraindications:
li>(cc: chronic dysenteric disorders with deficiency of Spleen and Stomach)
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